diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/event.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/event.rs
index 58d5b26d..296428ff 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/event.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/event.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 use rand::{thread_rng, Rng};
 use xmpp_parsers::{iq::Iq, jid::Jid, message::Message, presence::Presence};
+use xso::AsXml;
 
 use crate::xmlstream::XmppStreamElement;
 use crate::Error;
@@ -16,15 +17,19 @@ fn make_id() -> String {
 }
 
 /// A stanza sent/received over the stream.
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(AsXml, Debug)]
+#[xml()]
 pub enum Stanza {
     /// IQ stanza
+    #[xml(transparent)]
     Iq(Iq),
 
     /// Message stanza
+    #[xml(transparent)]
     Message(Message),
 
     /// Presence stanza
+    #[xml(transparent)]
     Presence(Presence),
 }
 
diff --git a/tokio-xmpp/src/lib.rs b/tokio-xmpp/src/lib.rs
index 5b00e42f..1c9200bb 100644
--- a/tokio-xmpp/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tokio-xmpp/src/lib.rs
@@ -70,3 +70,6 @@ pub use crate::error::Error;
 pub use minidom;
 pub use xmpp_parsers as parsers;
 pub use xmpp_parsers::jid;
+
+// Re-export for debug purposes
+pub use xso::asxml::PrintRawXml;
diff --git a/xso/Cargo.toml b/xso/Cargo.toml
index 17083b25..8302e3da 100644
--- a/xso/Cargo.toml
+++ b/xso/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ categories = ["encoding"]
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 
 [dependencies]
+bytes = { version = "1" }
 rxml = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = false }
 minidom = { version = "0.16", path = "../minidom" }
 xso_proc = { version = "0.1", path = "../xso-proc", optional = true }
diff --git a/xso/src/asxml.rs b/xso/src/asxml.rs
index 3b4e449e..8e3ef3d9 100644
--- a/xso/src/asxml.rs
+++ b/xso/src/asxml.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ use crate::error::Error;
 use crate::rxml_util::Item;
 use crate::AsXml;
 
+use core::fmt;
+
+use bytes::BytesMut;
+
 /// Helper iterator to convert an `Option<T>` to XML.
 pub struct OptionAsXml<T: Iterator>(Option<T>);
 
@@ -86,6 +90,30 @@ where
     }
 }
 
+/// Provides a helper which implements Display printing raw XML
+pub struct PrintRawXml<'x, T>(pub &'x T);
+
+impl<'x, T: AsXml> fmt::Display for PrintRawXml<'x, T> {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        let iter = match self.0.as_xml_iter() {
+            Ok(iter) => iter,
+            Err(err) => return write!(f, "<failed to serialize PrintRawXml: {:?}>", err),
+        };
+        let mut writer = rxml::writer::Encoder::new();
+        let mut buf = BytesMut::new();
+        for item in iter {
+            let item = match item {
+                Ok(item) => item,
+                Err(err) => return write!(f, "<failed to serialize PrintRawXml: {:?}>", err),
+            };
+            if let Err(err) = writer.encode(item.as_rxml_item(), &mut buf) {
+                return write!(f, "<failed to serialize PrintRawXml: {:?}>", err);
+            }
+        }
+        write!(f, "{:?}", buf)
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;